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Irish's Just Desserts

December 20, 1998|By Kevin Stone.

TINLEY PARK — Malcolm Moran recently wrote that Notre Dame got "an undeserved snub from the bowl system in 1996." This is a classic case of revisionist history.

The reality is that Notre Dame lost its final regular-season game to USC and fell to 18th in the polls. The bowl alliance's at-large bids went to sixth-ranked Nebraska and seventh-ranked Penn State. Notre Dame then turned down invitations to play in lesser bowls. To suggest it was somehow "robbed" of a bowl berth is ridiculous.